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> Volkswagen settled in Zwickau, Chemnitz and Eisenach and developed the Golf and Polo models there. Opel has been producing cars there since 1992, along with n
by Dunedan 5y ago
> Volkswagen settled in Zwickau, Chemnitz and Eisenach and developed the Golf and Polo models there. Opel has been producing cars there since 1992, along with numerous new suppliers that call Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt their home.
The author mixed something up there. VW only settled in Zwickau and Chemnitz, which were involved in Trabant production. However VW neither settled in Eisenach nor was there anything regarding the production of Trabant going on in Eisenach. Instead the "VEB Automobilwerk Eisenach" produced the "Wartburg" [0], another famous car in GDR in Eisenach and after the reunification Opel established a factory there [1].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg_(marque) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg_(marque)
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Eisenach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Eisenach
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- Archelaos 5y agoTo supplement this: Eisenach was the location of one of the early car manufacturers of Germany.[1] It was BMW that bought the factory in 1928. After WW2 it was nationalized. The factory was closed in 1991. The Opel factory was not a direct successor of it. However, the availbility of skilled workers from the old factory influenced the dicision to establish a new factory there. [1] Here the picture of a "Wartburg" from 1898: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg-Motorwagen#/media/Datei:Wartburg_1898.jpg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg-Motorwagen#/media/Dat...